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biggest myth out there is that Thatcher and Reagan were friends, they constantly bumped heads. They tolerated eachother for their own political agenda's.
I dont understand why so many of you have taken offence to Andy's position? Why should he respect someone in death that he hated in the world of the living? Andy lived in the UK during the 1980's and has earned an opinion on this subject doesnt matter if you agree with him or not.
Are you saying he can dish it out but can't take it?
How about it, Andy? Is this true?
Did you consider Ted Kennedy evil, by chance?
And she in turn was put in hers...
Her biggest mistakes was gutting the NHS and poll tax attempt.. those two ultimately cost her, her job. She also pushed the banking industry even more for London, which as we all know now, was not exactly a good thing. She also, like Cameron now, tried to push for class warfare.... a sickness that has for generation after generation held the UK back (and other nations).
You're not exactly hiding what your problem really is here.
Btw, Britain has never protected free speech and no one cares about your milk job.
thats not the issue, the issue people are taking is his "lack of respect" but he and many other people didnt respect her. My mother's brother, father and freinds all lost their jobs during the closure of the mines and she survived on scraps during the strikes, she posted a picture today with a bottle of champagne she saved from her dad's funeral a couple years ago. She was celebrating. This women cuts very deep into the British working classes.
No. I didn't agree with him politically, but don't think he was evil.
thats not the issue, the issue people are taking is his "lack of respect" but he and many other people didnt respect her. My mother's brother, father and freinds all lost their jobs during the closure of the mines and she survived on scraps during the strikes, she posted a picture today with a bottle of champagne she saved from her dad's funeral a couple years ago. She was celebrating. This women cuts very deep into the British working classes.
What about the parts that WANT to belong to the UK? Falklands didnt rebel, they were invaded.
Thing is Higgins, people who didn't live through it can't understand what it was like. If you were working class and northern you really did feel as if you were living in a fascist police state. Working in Sunderland during the miners' strike of 1984-5 on the edge of the Durham coalfield, I saw first hand police blockades of mining villages, forcible evictions, picket lines attacked by riot police with shield, truncheons and tear gas, strikers' families being starved into submission. The strike was followed by privatisation and the fulfillment of what the strikers had warned, that the policy was to destroy the industry. These coalfield villages are now virtual ghost towns. The only thing left is the poverty and alienation. I was a welfare rights advisor at the time. The images of those days have never left me.
Leftists are filled with hate and we can see it everywhere.
Could we really expect anything different now?
Thing is Higgins, people who didn't live through it can't understand what it was like. If you were working class and northern you really did feel as if you were living in a fascist police state. Working in Sunderland during the miners' strike of 1984-5 on the edge of the Durham coalfield, I saw first hand police blockades of mining villages, forcible evictions, picket lines attacked by riot police with shield, truncheons and tear gas, strikers' families being starved into submission. The strike was followed by privatisation and the fulfillment of what the strikers had warned, that the policy was to destroy the industry. These coalfield villages are now virtual ghost towns. The only thing left is the poverty and alienation. I was a welfare rights advisor at the time. The images of those days have never left me.
RIP Maggie. You drove the wobblies wacky and still do. Good for you!
The Coalfields would have closed down anyway, indeed coal is considered is now considered a dirty fuel. In terms of the Durham Coalfield most of it had already closed by the time Thatcher came to power, so she can't be blamed for the closing of most of the County Durham Coalfield.
- Margaret Thatcher"I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society - from a give-it-to-me to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain."
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